BotCon 2014 Convention Videos Online Now

If you couldn't make it to this year's BotCon, and the pictures aren't enough, don't worry, because we have plenty of video footage supplied by Seibertron himself! From Kreo to Generations and everything inbetween! All videos are hosted on our official YouTube channel and we've included the embeds below.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What happened with the last wave of Beast Hunter figures, namely the simplified deluxes and legends?

This one is simple. North American retails simply didn't order any likely due to A) all the leftover unsold Beast Hunters toys they were still trying to sell, and B) AOE toys were coming and, with those being for a movie, would likely be more up their alley since retailers love (trying to sell) TF movie toys.

Ergo, they went to retailers in other continents' markets like countries in Europe and Southeast Asia.

Yep, hence all the home bargins discount stores near me have boxes of simplified deluxes...Have been tempted for windrazor and doublestrike, but only because I love their cyberverse molds. Only found the simplified voyager toys in one place so far though.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I think the legends figures will still come with Targetmasters. The legend and TM are gang molded so in the case of Thundercracker he would be pressed with Waspinator and would cost a fortune not to.

I think you might be mistaken. Takara have come out with the Micromaster figures separately in clear plastic. Also Nemesis Prime comes with Bumblebee's minicon and Cliffjumper come's with Prime's.

I suspect that once the Armada/Energon finished up, they wised up and decided not to gangmold minicon molds any more. Note that all the minicons in Cybertron forward featured a separate plastic colour for each, whereas before, there were many minicons on the same that shared the same dyes.

It's all hypothesis of course, considering that some in Armada were all in different dyes too.

Don't forget Takara doesn't mind spending money when it makes sense. Nemesis and Cliffjumper are in the same wave so it's easy to swap the Targetmasters. If you remember the PCC when they swapped partners around it was always within the same group of figures.

The whole gang-molding argument is moot for TakaraTomy: we've seen separate releases of the Cybertron Giant Planet Team, Universe Nightstick, and PCC Mini-Cons as campaign exclusives, despite being gang-molded with either their larger partner or with eachother. TakaraTomy has no qualms with throwing out or recycling unused parts of toys.

As a rule of thumb, Armada, Energon, Cybertron, Universe and Power Core Combiners had them gang-molded, Classics did not.

Megatron has joined the Autobots in the ongoing comic book series by IDW. Don't know how long that will last, but that's where the story is for now. The upcoming leader toy will come with a sticker sheet, including an Autobot logo, so you can represent the current IDW Megatron for your collection if you wish.

Skywarp64 wrote:I don't think I've ever been more confused in my life. Why would you put an Autobot badge on Megatron?

Ain't that kind of like putting Cobra Commander in a G.I. Joe uniform?

In the recent issues of IDW's "More Than Meets the Eye" series, Megatron goes Autobot after [spoiler]Bumblebee sacrifices himself to save Megatron from Shockwave[/spoiler] in the "Dark Cybertron" tie-in of MTMTE and "Robots in Disguise".

Also worth noting, much like Whirl and the upcoming Roadbuster, Megatron here will come with a sticker sheet of his own, with one of the stickers being an Autobot faction symbol, intended to make Megatron more accurate to his MTMTE appearance.

I don't know where that panel comes from, but having seen the Lord of Decepticons wear a Autobot symbol and read the dialogue branding BUMBLEBEE as his FRIEND, I don't think I've ever been more pissed off by an image in my entire life.

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